Ether mixture for disinfecting.



UN .lTEl) i TAT ES TUMA S l.-\l.(illCliA, JOSE l'lNZAN'l MlSlMWSKY, ALFREDO UARlCUlllIA, AN!) liUlllS lCMlLlANQ ODlU, Old BUENOS AYRES, ARGENTINA.

ETHER MIXTURE FQR DESBNFEGTENG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 20, 1904. Serial No. 189,876- (Spccimena) Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

a citizen of the United States of America, and

residents of N o. 590 (.falle Reconquista, in the (-Ity of Buenos Ayres, Argentina, have invented a new and useful improvement in Ether Mixtures for Disinfecting purposes, of which the following is a specification.

()ur invention refers to a new compound which possesses special properties for deodorizing and aromatizing petroleum and other hydrocarbons. 1

In the manufacture of our new compound we proceed as follows: We macerate, during lii'teen days, leaves of eucalyptus globulus, thirty grams; camphol', live grams; in unrectilied ethylic alcohol, three hundred grams; in unrectified methylic alcohol, threehundred grams; in unrectiiied amylic alcohol, three hundred grams; in commercial hydrochloric acid ,onehundred grams. Afterfifteen da s'we add dehydrated sea-salt, three hundre and eighty grams; commercial sulfuric acid, thirty-five grams; acetate of ammonia,.sixty grams. The whole is left to macerate fortyeight hours longer, after which it is submitted to distillation, the vapors heir) concentrated in a Liebig cooler, which deposits the product in a suitable receiver resting in a freezing mixture. At the same time binoxid of nitrogen is led from another generator into this receiver until the nitryls shall have formed.

The resulting compound. retains its properties under any condition of temperature and keeps indefinitely without any deterioration. It is also to be noted that it does not prejudicially affect any of the other roperties of petroleum nor of alcohol. Neit or does it leave any residuum after combustion. In its manufacture we use dehydrated sea-salt on account of the very small cost of the same, while it contains the chlorids, bromids, and sulfates of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesiumwhich we require to utilize; but we might employ any of the com ounds containing the above-mentioned su stances or components for the pur ose of extracting from the same the materials which compose our compound.

The acetate of ammonia is employed as a vfifteen per millimeter of our compound.

source of the production of acetic acid and of ammonia; the mcthylic, ethylic, and amylic alcohols acidulatcd with hydrochloric acid for the purpose of forming the ether compounds appertaining to the different compounds, and, finally, the bidoxid of nitrogen to the end that it may intervene in the formation of the nitryls and aldehydes, which are oxidizing and disinfecting agents, specially those of mcthylic alcohol, the antiseptic pIopcrties of which are well known. The eucalyptus and camphor contribute to avoid any isagreeable emanations during the combustion of the h drocarbons, apart from the advantages to be derived from the well-known balsamic and hygienic properties of those ingredients.

To carry out the deodoriz'ation and aroma tization of kerosene or other hydrocarbons,

it su'l'l'ices to add to the same from ten to thirty-five per millimeter of our compound, according to the quality of the article under treatment. In certain cases we may commence by adding to the kerosene not more than three per m1llimeter,'by weight, of alum and decanting after forty-eight hours and then treating the kerosene by our compound.

After the very simple treatment we have thus described it will be found that the characteristic odor of etroleum will have completely disappeared, eingreplaced by an a reeable aroma. At the same time it will be 0 served that the oil has lost some of its greasiness; that its illuminatin ower is'greater, the li ht bein clearer, w i e the flashing-point is higher, which is a: reat advantage, as the danger of accidenta ignition is thus diminished. These latter effects may be attributed to the formation of chlorids, bromids, and sulfates of the salts contained in the seasalt employed in the preparation. Furthermore, the kerosene treated in this manner becomes suitable for the employment in the manufacture of varnishes through the increase which takes place in its siccative power and the elimination of all disa reeable odor. The operation of denatural izing alcohol consists merely of adding to the same ten go 13 may be colored with any of the usual substances or with eosin, hematoxylin, carmine fuchsin, orpicric acid in any of its various combinations. The alcohol thus treated is 'unfit to be taken into the stomach; but its strong, but not disagreeable, odor effectively prevents all possibiht of mistake. It should also be pointed out t lat it loses none of the I properties which render it available for other industrial and domestic uses. Our compound when used for this purpose possesses the highl -valuable property of becoming so intimate y combined with the alcohol as to render it quite impossible to eliminate it by redistillation or by any other process whatever. So there is no danger of the alcohol ever bein used in the preparation of any article whic is to be taken into the stomach. It ma be used in the pre aration of varnishes, w 'ch will be more bri liant and dry quicker. The combustion of this alcohol produces no smoke, the products of the same being rather aromatie and disinfectant and have besides the balsamic and hygienic properties which, as is well known, euca yptus and camphor possess.

Among other purposes for which our compound may be used we may mention the arcmatization of animal fats and oils, the said agent being added in the proportion that mag be most expedient in each case.

andle-wicks may be impregnated with this substance, as the light given will be found to haveincreased brilliancy.

' Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letgo ters Patent, is

1. The aromatic and disinfecting compound am he alcohol, hydrochloric acid, sea-salt,

sul rie acid, acetate of ammonia and binoxid of nitrogen, in or about the proportions described.

In witness whereof we have signed our 7 names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

TOMAS BARGIELA. JOSE PINZANI MISLOWSKY. ALFREDO CARICCHIA. LOUIS EMILIANO ()DlO.

Witnesses:

P. A. BRENEY, AN'ro. L. Benz. 

